When he was eight years old, Isidro went on a school trip to the town of Torremolinos on the Costa del Sol. While driving along the Spanish coastline to the southern most tip of Europe he saw a panoramic view of the Mediterranean with the Atlas Mountains of northern Morocco on the distant horizon.

Isidro clearly remembers this first encounter with Africa and the significance of looking at a different country, so near in geographical terms, but so alien from his own world. This potent memory stayed with him and inspired him to retrace his childhood steps and create a visual interpretation of his experience. In 2008 he made the same journey, starting from his hometown of Cadiz and traveling to the Straits of Gibraltar. At different points along the way he photographed the view south, noting the distance between the camera and the shore of Africa from a map.

Stemming from a personal memory, "Almost" forms part of a broader visual project in which Isidro explores ideas of imagination and perception. He argues that as we look at an image the viewer brings their own understanding of what they are looking at and through this process imposes ideas and fills in objects that may not be there in reality. Thus the image begins to possess qualities that lie only in the mind's eye. In the seascapes, shot on long exposures, colour and form begin to coalesce providing the hint of the landscape, onto which the viewer can imaginatively project.

This idea of partial narrative is the theme that holds Isidro's different series together and in the process re-evaluates the idea of photography as a medium based in ideas of reality and truth. For Isidro it is hardly ever simply a passive recording technique, centered in objectivity, but rather it is a medium of interpretation and imagination.